Tag: Republic Pictures.
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When bargain basement noir thrived in Hollywood
I’m on a Poverty Row tear these days. As you probably know, many of the films made there aren’t quite as polished as the gems turned out by Paramount, Warner Brothers or 20th Century Fox. But they have a certain something that the big budget movies lack: a rag-tag, rough around the edges quality that…
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Poverty Row II: Scheming Communists Walk Among Us
Like many up and coming Hollywood actors, Hugh Beaumont appeared in noir B-pictures before he became better known as an all-American TV dad, and he played some pretty despicable characters, too. But more about that later. From the 1920s to the 1950s, scads of B-pictures were produced by small studios located near the intersection of…